Using a newly developed method researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (IMBA) have been able to shed light on the complexity of genome ...

Scientists from Nagoya University, Yokohama City University and Chubu University have developed a system which enables the live imaging of the formation of the female gamete in plants. In flowering ...

Human bodies have to be built from a single egg cell that's fertilized by a sperm cell. Many rounds of cell division occur as the body is developing, and it seems that there are plenty of chances for ...

Scientists are developing a new way to help infertile women have babies. A mature cell from the woman's body is merged with a chromosome-free egg, to which sperm is later added. The scientists insist ...

Recent advances in cellular biology have underscored the central role of the actin cytoskeleton in the regulation of oocyte maturation and fertilisation. Actin filament rearrangements not only ...

(A) Pollen grains generated from the stamen pollinate at the tip of the pistil. Pollen tubes grow inside the pistil towards the ovule located in the placenta. (B) The pollen tubes are guided to the ...